The international conference “A New Way to Decarbonize the Economy” was successfully held in Almaty with the participation of the CIRETEC-GT laboratory

The SPbPU delegation that took part in the conference included specialists from the laboratory “Interdisciplinary Research and Education on Technological and Economic Issues of the Energy Transition (CIRETEC-GT)”, created as part of the implementation of the mega-grant “Technological Challenges and Socio-Economic Transformation in the Context of Energy Transitions” (Agreement No. 075-15-2022-1136 dated 07/01/2022): head of the laboratory, Doctor of Economic Sciences Igor ILIN, leading researcher, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Askar AKAEV, leading researcher, Doctor of Economic Sciences Askar SARYGULOV, senior researcher , Doctor of Economic Sciences Anastasia LEVINA, Senior Researcher, Doctor of Technical Sciences Natalya POLITAYEVA, Senior Researcher, Candidate of Economic Sciences Alisa DUBGORN, Senior Researcher, Candidate of Technical Sciences Konstantin FROLOV.

The plenary session of the conference was opened by the Chairman of the Board - Rector of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Zhanseit TUIMEBAYEV, noting the importance and timeliness of the event both in the context of cooperation between Russian and Kazakh scientific schools, and the relevance of the economic decarbonization agenda. Professor AKAEV, in his report “Overcoming the limits of growth or the energy of the near future,” also emphasized the exceptional role of the conference in view of the recent decision to create a regional hub on the UN SDGs for the countries of Central Asia in Kazakhstan, as well as the launch in Kazakhstan of a partnership program for a just energy transition for the countries of the Central African Republic. The plenary session was also attended by the scientific director of the Institute of Oceanography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor Robert NIGMATULIN, Director of the Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Economic Sciences Alexander SHIROV, Director of the Institute of Mining of Kazakhstan, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan , Doctor of Technical Sciences Nikolai BUKTUKOV, Rector of the University of Darussalam Gontor Indonesia, Professor Hamid Fahmi ZARKASI, Expert of the Public Chamber of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan Aizhan SKAKOVA, Professor of the Institute of Energy Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Economic Sciences Yuri PLAKITKIN. Russian, Kazakh and foreign scientists shared the results of scientific research, and also put forward for discussion a number of practical problems in the field of decarbonization of the economy and proposals for solving them.

The second day of the conference continued with sectional sessions. A total of seven sessions were held on various topics related to the transition to a low-carbon economy.
Scientists from the Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Economic Problems named after. G.P. Luzin Federal Research Center KSC RAS, Belarusian National Technical University, Belarusian-Russian University, Institute of Physical and Technical Problems of the North named after V.P. Larionov Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, FRC CCC SB RAS, S. Seifullin Kazakh Agro Technical Research University, representatives of Gazprom Vodorod LLC, Get IT company and other institutions.
The head of the CIRETEC-GT SPbPU laboratory, Igor ILIN, who moderated the section “Information technologies and the system of digital support models for managing the energy transition,” noted: “It’s nice to see that the topic of energy transition is of such great interest to scientists and business representatives from various countries. I would like to especially emphasize the interdisciplinarity of both the topic in general and the conference in particular: based on the reports presented both in the plenary session and in seven separate sections, we can conclude that the problem of the energy transition must be considered in its entirety. This large-scale, systemic task, which is on the agenda of the leadership of our countries, must be supported by the scientific community. This event allowed scientists and practitioners dealing with various aspects of energy transition to hear each other, to look at the problems being solved from a different angle, and to start new effective cooperation. We are very grateful to the management of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University for joint work in preparation of this conference, as well as for a special warm welcome in Almaty"